What is this DOSBox I talk of? It is one of those really rare things that completely lives up to its name. Download DOSBox, its free, and it will give you a window with DOS in it, inside Windows. DOS games don't usually like NT based operating systems (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP) and dual booting Windows and DOS is, well, kind of a stupid idea unless you have very strong reasons for it, but only like 5 people do. So the answer is DOSBox, a DOS emulator. Pull out your floppies and, if you are lucky a CD, with your DOS games on it, install them to your harddrive (many times this will just be copying them). Make sure to keep the directory names simple. If you've never used DOS before, you'll know why you want to do this when you get into the DOSBox window. It won't be able to display directory or filenames longer than 8 letters. It will cut them off and end them with ~1 or some other number. So, I suggest, pick a harddrive, make a DOS directory in it, and install all your DOS games inside there. Then, follow these steps. Run DOSBox. Type "mount c c:\" without the quotes. This will create a C: drive inside DOSBox that is simply pointing to your real C: drive. You can change it to any other drive letters you want. "mount q e:\" will mount your real E drive to a drive called q: inside DOSBox. There is a file called DOSBox.conf that you can edit to make mounting harddrives automatically. Just add: mount c c:\ to the bottom of the file and it'll run that when DOSBox starts up. If you have a directory called DOS on the C: drive, you can then type "cd DOS" to access it. Type "dir" to list the files, and type the name of the .exe, .bat, or .com you need to to make the game go. To exit a directory, just type "cd .." to back out of it. There is a lot of to DOSBox. A lot of options you can tweak, a lot of neat stuff you can do. Be sure to read through their website and the documentation. http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/ The other really redeeming feature of DOSBox? Netplay. One person is the server, the other person connects. Both players run DOSBox. Player 1 types IPXNET STARTSERVER Player 2 types "IPXNET CONNECT IP# Port#" Fill in the IP and Port numbers of your opponents computer. Next, someone start whatever game you'll be playing in IPX mode as the host. The other person can start the game to connect to it, and you are good to go. That's it. This thing rocks. So far I have played the following games in DOSBox: Rise of the Triad, Blood, Doom, MK2, MK3 DOS, Dune 2, Race Drivin, and a handful of others. I've successfully played many of these online with the IPXNET command. Nothing beats it. Thank you DOSBox makers, thank you.